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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 78. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre: 7:30 p.m. in CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets: $30 adults, $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling 386-585-9415, or at the venue one-half hour before showtime. The play contains mature language. Set in 1959 a few months before Holiday’s death, Robertson’s semi-fictionalized work imagines one of Lady Day’s last performances, in a seedy South Philadelphia bar, as she’s accompanied by her pianist. With both body and psyche bruised by her tortured, drug-addled life, Lady Day – a nickname given her by her saxophonist friend Lester Young – delivers lengthy, revelatory monologues between performing such songs as “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer),” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” and the classics “God Bless the Child” and the chilling “Strange Fruit,” about the lynching of Black people in the American South. See FlaglerLive’s preview, “Capturing the Essence: Laniece Fagundes Returns as Billie Holiday at City Rep’s ‘Lady Day’.”
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notably: While Europe, Canada and, until this week, the United States were adopting a consensus view that alcohol consumption, any alcohol consumption, has its harm and contributes to cancer and other diseases, we suddenly have the guy playing doctor in the Trump administration–Mehmet Oz–issuing a new guidance that yes, you should limit drinking, but the actual limits have been removed: no suggestions about this or that many drinks per week, no differences between men and women, not even any mention of the risk of breast cancer to women, or other cancers to men. “Alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together,” Oz said. He conceded that the best case scenario is not to drink, but (and who can fault him for saying this) said that drinking is also “an excuse to bond and socialize, and there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way.” Especially since we need booze more than ever, if we are to make it through the next three years. We desperately need “intoxication, or rather,” as Dreiser put it, “that ruddy warmth and comfortableness which precedes the more sloven state.” Or if we are to go the way of Proverbs: “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.” In England, the Labor Party is planning to lower the allowable drink-and-drive limit from 0.08 to 0.05. But the new American guidance seems to drip from the same antivax fountain that led Oz also to claim that “there was never really good data to support” the one drink for women and two drinks for men (per day) guidance that stood for a few decades until even that was scaled back. The Times: “Though there is robust debate within the medical community as to the relationship between moderate drinking and various forms of cardiovascular disease, there is more scientific certainty about the link between alcohol and at least seven types of cancer.” Cue Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment: “The more I drink, the more I suffer. It is because I seek to feel, and to suffer more, that I indulge in drink. I drink to suffer better, more deeply.”
Now this: A repeat, but good enough to run once a year:
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankees, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton: ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
–From Melville’s Redburn (1849).
I suspect says
“Dr. Oz” never recovered from the disallusionment of highly recommending the consumption of rice, only to later learn many sources of rice at the time had contained high levels of arsonic.
But is that reason enough to stand in support of the literal turning upside-down of the “food pyramid” as a disaffected child might do as a spite-fulled joke?
At least one could have discovered such a fact (rice containing arsonic) with some level of confidence of it being true then… but can one now?
I suspect says
If Dr. Oz had stood for revising to food pyramid due to some other reason, perhaps a link between rice consumption and colon cancer… but he’s standing with the wrong crowd.
What should I believe? Note what HASN’T changed in rotation of the food pyramid?
That of foods in the middle?
Pogo says
James says
Btw… The “fools’ disease.”
“Do not die of the fools’ disease. The wise generally die after they have lost their reason, fools before they have found it.
To die of the fools’ disease is to die of too much thought. Some die because they think and feel too much, others live because they do not think and feel at all.
The first are fools because they die of sorrow, the others because they do not. A fool is he that dies of too much knowledge. Thus some die because they are too knowing, others because they are not knowing enough. Yet though many die like fools, few die fools.”
I happen to have read Gracian long ago, as it so happened at the same time as I read Machiavelli.
Both, in some ways, birds of a feather… but perhaps, sadly truthful in their pessimistic observations of human nature.
Although Gracian’s work appears to have a few “maxims” that contradict each other, it’s somewhat more understandable considering its title.
It is after all the “art” of “worldly” wisdom, not some other such title.
One must remember, one persons art is another’s trash… and man (at times) is full of contradictions in both words and deeds.
All men are born fools, how one dies is for others to judge… one can only live life.
Period.
Just an opinion.
James says
Btw, the “worldly” wisdom of which Gracián wrote was not of science… as one thinks of science perhaps today, as in a physics text.
The pursuit of scientific knowledge is not foolish… at least in my opinion. But perhaps ignoring human nature is.
Just a clarification.
Endless dark money says
They busy protecting pedophiles and pushing misinformation to dismantle democracy! Just a little GoP terror!